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  2. History of cotton - Wikipedia

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    King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (2010) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2015) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850 (2013) Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary ...

  3. Like a Family - Wikipedia

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    Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World is a history of the cotton textile industry in the American South, especially the Piedmont region of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

  4. William Gregg (industrialist) - Wikipedia

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    William Gregg, considered by many as "the most significant figure in the development of cotton-mills in the South", was born on February 2, 1800, in Monongalia County, Virginia. [1] But some sources state that he was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Gregg was the youngest son of William Gregg and Elizabeth Gregg.

  5. Cotton production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The cotton industry; an essay in American economic history. Part I. The cotton culture and the cotton trade (1897) online free; Johnson, Charles S. Statistical atlas of southern counties: listing and analysis of socio-economic indices of 1104 southern counties (1941). excerpt; Kennedy, Roger G. Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System ...

  6. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cotton prices kept going up as the South remained the main supplier in the world. In 1860, the US shipped 3.5 million bales worth $192 million. [125] [126] After the American Civil War, cotton production expanded to small farms, operated by white and black tenant farmers and sharecroppers.

  7. Edmund Richardson - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Richardson was born June 28, 1818, in Caswell County, North Carolina, to James Richardson and Nancy Payne Ware. [1] He was educated in common schools from the age of 10 to 14 but left school in 1832 and clerked in a dry goods store in Danville, Virginia.

  8. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Virginia: Likely brother to James Davis Rachell Davis: Wife of James Davis Virginia: Edward Chart: Sea Venture: Bermudas Eason ️ baby boy [60] Easton, Bermudas [61]-- Born on Bermuda islands, died c. 1610 either on the islands or arriving at Jamestown [61] Edward Eason: Easton, E. [61] Sea Venture: Father to Bermudas (boy), husband to ...

  9. List of James River plantations - Wikipedia

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    The Gilliam family arrived in Virginia in the 17th century as indentured servants. By the late 18th century the family had amassed several plantations in the area. Christian was the daughter of Richard Eppes of Appomattox Plantation. Her maternal grandfather was a descendant of Pocahontas, as were many members of the First Families of Virginia ...